No, none at all. Have you read Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer? Phenominal book, about the naval battles around Guadalcanal. His description of the Battle of Cape Esperance is especially good.
Quote from: jerseydevil on July 25, 2015, 04:08:28 AMNo, none at all. Have you read Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer? Phenominal book, about the naval battles around Guadalcanal. His description of the Battle of Cape Esperance is especially good.Its up there in the pile on top of the first tall book case. Also Atkinson's 'The Guns at Last Light'. Excellent books.
Quote from: ColoSwiss on July 25, 2015, 04:35:49 AMQuote from: jerseydevil on July 25, 2015, 04:08:28 AMNo, none at all. Have you read Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer? Phenominal book, about the naval battles around Guadalcanal. His description of the Battle of Cape Esperance is especially good.Its up there in the pile on top of the first tall book case. Also Atkinson's 'The Guns at Last Light'. Excellent books.I'm going to have to look into that one. Right now I'm reading A Bridge too Far again after having seen the movie the other day.....
“Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it.Ah … ! What’s happening? it thought.Er, excuse me, who am I?Hello?Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life?What do I mean by who am I?Calm down, get a grip now … oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It’s a sort of … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.Good. Ooooh, it’s getting quite strong. And hey, what’s about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that … wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for. It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What’s this thing? This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about pretty good can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now – have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?No.Never mind, hey, this is really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I’m quite dizzy with anticipation …Or is it the wind?There really is a lot of that now isn’t it?And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!I wonder if it will be friends with me?And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.”― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I frequent second hand bookstores. It's like treasure hunting. Last month i got an electrical engineer's handbook for 8 bucks. Brand new books cost a ton but the rate for second hand is great!
Quote from: carboncopy101 on May 27, 2017, 05:41:20 AMI frequent second hand bookstores. It's like treasure hunting. Last month i got an electrical engineer's handbook for 8 bucks. Brand new books cost a ton but the rate for second hand is great!I built 90% of a caomplete Stephen King collection from second hand stores. I frequent them all the time.
Some good reading there.
Wow, detron is on fire.
Quote from: zoidberg on May 27, 2017, 06:23:52 AMWow, detron is on fire. I'd say so, that's a nice little collection, let alone leatherbound!JR
Barnes & Noble decided to sell the Leatherbound Classics that I love for half price! I decided to increase my collectiontoday I bought these fourrecently ( as in within the last two weeks) I bought theseand the ones I had before this:
Nice. What's in the Classic Horror Stories collection?
Also - major bookworm here. I don't go anywhere without a book. Set myself a goal of 65 books this year and (just about) on target! I have a Kindle too which has upped my reading but I still prefer a physical copy.
Quote from: caninesapien on May 30, 2017, 01:07:12 PMNice. What's in the Classic Horror Stories collection?was able to find the answer online.
Quote from: caninesapien on May 30, 2017, 01:11:01 PMAlso - major bookworm here. I don't go anywhere without a book. Set myself a goal of 65 books this year and (just about) on target! I have a Kindle too which has upped my reading but I still prefer a physical copy.Major Bookworm!
Quote from: pfrsantos on May 30, 2017, 04:41:09 PMQuote from: caninesapien on May 30, 2017, 01:11:01 PMAlso - major bookworm here. I don't go anywhere without a book. Set myself a goal of 65 books this year and (just about) on target! I have a Kindle too which has upped my reading but I still prefer a physical copy.Major Bookworm! The thing I like best about paperbacks is the old artwork on some of the 1960s/70s horror publications